On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 19:21 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > My latest testing dist-upgrade on Sunday proved a disaster: X crashed > once, then locked up the display though I could get in via ssh; > rebooted, but this repeated several times. No point in filing a bug, as > it's likely due to the X transition...
Might still be useful to prevent similar problems in the future. > So I upgraded to unstable. The X crash is gone, and nearly everything > works! *whew* But GnuCash has no text -- where there should be a > string, there is either nothing, or for a menu header, a single dot. > Yesterday John Goerzen filed bug 365636 against gnucash, but in his case > it failed to start at all... > > In addition, E16 window title bars have no text, nor do E's cloud > tooltips or background menus, though minimized window icons do. Sounds like your server-side X font setup is busted. I'd start by checking the font paths in the X (font) server. All of this is more likely related to X than GNOME... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer

